Traveling across Drake’s passage can be a very rough trip for even regular cruisers. If you get sick going on the teacups at the fair, I would not recommend Drake’s Passage as your first travel choice. However if you are still interested in learning what Drake’s passage is, some of the many dangers, and why Sir Ernest Shackleton braved this passage in a lifeboat to save his crew than this is a good read for you.
Drakes Passage, A Cramped piece of ocean only 800 km wide. “The gap between the tip of South America and the end [islands] of the Antarctic Peninsula.” (82) The shortest passage to any islands around the continent of Antarctica. It may seem like a good idea to take advantage of this passage, but Drake’s Passage, addressed by some as …show more content…
As I have mentioned Sir Francis Drake crossed the passage, taking sixteen days and he lost four ships in the process. The Passage is named after Sir Francis Drake, although it was alleged to be crossed by a Spanish Marine Explores named Francisco de Hoces in 1525. It wasn’t until 1575 that Sir Francis Drake made his voyage across Drake’s Passage and his ship that crossed the passage was blown south. Crossing Drake’s passage next in 1616 was a Dutch Explorer who was named Willem Schouten. Three decades later Drake’s Passage was an important trade route. “in 19th and early 20th centuries before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The stormy seas and icy conditions made the rounding of Cape Horn through the Drake Passage a rigorous test for ships and crews alike, especially for the sailing vessels of the day.” Unfortunately for Shackleton and his crew there wasn’t many other options other than crossing the teeny, tiny passage said to be the “roughest sea passage in the world.” According to the book Shipwrecked At The Bottom Of The World, many men knew that “Someone would have to go for help” (92) They just didn’t know how long they had before they had to leave their ice camp. “Our little boats might be compelled any day now to travel unsheltered over the open sea, wrote shackleton in his diary. With a thousand leagues between them and land to the north and the east. It seems vital that we should land on clearance island or its neighbor Elephant island.” (76) Their only hope was to try to get to Elephant Island by crossing Drake’s Passage and facing all it’s dangers. “Skipper, we will have to make that boat journey, however risky it is.” (92) Shackleton said this adding that he would not let his crew starve. I would have made this same decision to Cross Drake’s Passage. The crew had no other option other than crossing the passage “Shackleton knew - Everyone knew that they could not hold out on that
Drakes Passage, A Cramped piece of ocean only 800 km wide. “The gap between the tip of South America and the end [islands] of the Antarctic Peninsula.” (82) The shortest passage to any islands around the continent of Antarctica. It may seem like a good idea to take advantage of this passage, but Drake’s Passage, addressed by some as …show more content…
As I have mentioned Sir Francis Drake crossed the passage, taking sixteen days and he lost four ships in the process. The Passage is named after Sir Francis Drake, although it was alleged to be crossed by a Spanish Marine Explores named Francisco de Hoces in 1525. It wasn’t until 1575 that Sir Francis Drake made his voyage across Drake’s Passage and his ship that crossed the passage was blown south. Crossing Drake’s passage next in 1616 was a Dutch Explorer who was named Willem Schouten. Three decades later Drake’s Passage was an important trade route. “in 19th and early 20th centuries before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The stormy seas and icy conditions made the rounding of Cape Horn through the Drake Passage a rigorous test for ships and crews alike, especially for the sailing vessels of the day.” Unfortunately for Shackleton and his crew there wasn’t many other options other than crossing the teeny, tiny passage said to be the “roughest sea passage in the world.” According to the book Shipwrecked At The Bottom Of The World, many men knew that “Someone would have to go for help” (92) They just didn’t know how long they had before they had to leave their ice camp. “Our little boats might be compelled any day now to travel unsheltered over the open sea, wrote shackleton in his diary. With a thousand leagues between them and land to the north and the east. It seems vital that we should land on clearance island or its neighbor Elephant island.” (76) Their only hope was to try to get to Elephant Island by crossing Drake’s Passage and facing all it’s dangers. “Skipper, we will have to make that boat journey, however risky it is.” (92) Shackleton said this adding that he would not let his crew starve. I would have made this same decision to Cross Drake’s Passage. The crew had no other option other than crossing the passage “Shackleton knew - Everyone knew that they could not hold out on that